Skill Brewing

The Benefits Brewing by Aesop

The one book on brewing is an excellent guide for learning the skill to near mastery levels. Unlike most skills, this one was one I didn't even bother to put one point into (not even to "prime" the skill!). The same it true for alcohol tolerance, but it would seem the this skill isn't as useful as I thought it might be for a magician-- a few drinks and I've got the intelligence of an ape (and a dumb one at that)! However, I recognize that there are a few very potent elixirs one can mix for warriors (who have little use for intelligence in the heat of battle!) who can benefit much from the bonuses alcohol can give to them at high tolerance levels!

There is at least one recipe I know of for a brew that cannot be found in any tavern in Norrath (to the best of my knowledge!), and I know more will be found eventually. To date, it is not a very profitable skill to have, as the common brews one begins with can be had for far cheaper than they cost to make. This may change at a future date, and perhaps the harder-to-find or otherwise unfindable brews will make it a more profitable undertaking.

Basic Brewing Materials by Niami

You're going to need to locate several things, before you try brewing. First, you need recipes. The book you can buy so far is the "Brewer's Limericks" book. The only location found so far for this is Kaladim. (There is a quest in Halas/Everfrost for more advanced brewing recipes.) Then, you need a brew barrel. These can be found in pretty much every town. They are that odd things that look like a barrel with a hose leading from it to a white trashcan. Then you need containers for the finished product. Casks, bottles and the like can usually be found in inns and taverns. But wait, there's more. That's right - other ingredients. Some recipes will need ingredients that you can purchase at a few select shops in Norrath. Other recipes will requires foraged goodies, or creature loot (rat ears, snake scales and other such yummy stuff).

Ok, you've located everything and are ready to try. Wade through those Brewer's Limericks, try to translate them into the ingredients needed, pop them into the brew barrel, and press combine. (You can also take the easy way out and visit the recipes section of this site for recipes if you don't want to chase books all over.) If you fail, you will get back the bottle/cask, but you will lose all the other ingredients.

Brewing Recipe List

Recipe list from Live cerca May 2000 (pre-Velious).

Item	Ingredients	Container	Trivial
Mead	yeast, hops, malt	cask	40
Short ale	barley, hops, water	cask
Short beer	barley, hops, malt	cask
Ale	barley, malt, water	cask	70
Ol' Tumjim's Fierce Brew	barley, hops, yeast, malt	cask	135
Ogre swill	malt, yeast, froglok meat	cask
Tumpy's tonic	kiola nut, water	(none)
Gypsy wine	grapes, wine yeast, fire beetle eye	bottle
Red wine	grapes, wine yeast, foraged berries	bottle
White wine	grapes, wine yeast, foraged fruit	bottle
Gnomish spirits	rice, spider legs, rat ears	bottle
Fish wine	water, grapes, fish	bottle
Bog juice	water, snake scale	bottle
Vodka	2 short beers, water, foraged vegetables	bottle	135
Hulgarsh	2 vodka, water, fishing bait (yields: 3 bottles)	cask
Bleeding brain (yields 2)	vodka, spices, fire beetle eye	shotglass
Ginesh	vegetables, water, short beer (ale?)	shotglass
Heady kiola	2 kiola sap, water	bottle
Khalish	fruit, vegetables, water	bottle
Elven wine	morning dew, foraged berries, wine yeast	bottle
Honey mead	hops, malt, royal jelly, yeast	cask